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USA PATRIOT Act faces Reauthorization
Nancy Talanian, Director of Bill of Rights Defense Committee

A bi-partisan group of three Republicans and three Democrats vowed yesterday to block the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act. With many provisions of the Act set to expire next month, Republican negotiators had made a compromise on Wednesday that set out to make 14 of 16 provisions permanent. The compromise would also extend controversial provisions on wiretapping and FBI surveillance of personal and business information to seven years. The bi-partisan group, including Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Republican Larry Craig of Idaho, has challenged the compromise extension of the USA PATRIOT Act at a time when lawmakers are anxious to leave for Thanksgiving break. In a joint statement to the Senate judiciary and Intelligence communities, the group said, …

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Chinese America: A one-hour Special
GUESTS: Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic, co-authors of “Chinese America: The Untold Story of America’s Oldest New Community.”

During his trip to East Asia, President Bush has openly criticized the Chinese government, saying “”We encourage China to continue down the road of reform and openness, because the freer China is at home, the greater the welcome it will receive abroad.” He compared it to China’s rival, Taiwan, implying that Taiwan was a shining example of democracy, and an open economy. Today we take a look at America’s oldest new community, as it’s called by Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic. They have co-written a book about the Chinese American community, and their on-going relationship to their homeland, as well as how the US has treated them historically and currently. I spoke with Peter and …

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Internet Governance Discussed at World Summit
GUEST: Lee McKnight, member of the Internet Governance project, Associate Prof. of information studies, Syracuse University

Negotiators from more than 100 countries are meeting in Tunisia for the World Summit on the Information Society, under the United Nations auspices. The main focus is on who will control the internet. Up until now, an independent US-based entity, called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, was overseeing the handing out of domain names. As is standard practice in all international meetings, actual negotiations take place before the meetings begin, and last night, an 11-th hour agreement behind closed doors left the United States with ultimate oversight of the main computers that direct the Internet’s flow of information, commerce and dissent. I spoke yesterday with Lee McKnight, a member of the …

STOP THE WAR Fall Conference in Los Angeles takes place this Saturday, November 19, 2005, at Manual Arts High School, 4131 S. Vermont in Los Angeles, CA. 90037. The event is from 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

There will be plenaries and workshops all day long featuring people like Sonali Kolhatkar, David Bacon, John Bellamy Foster, Barbara Trent, and many others.

Plenary speakers and workshops will include both faculty and student voices with a diversity of viewpoints. Workshops will invite active participation with attendees. Documentary videos and an informational display area will be available all day. An informal evening program will include food, music, dancing, and an open microphone.

For more information, visit stopthewarconference.org.

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Public Power in the Age of Empire
GUESTS: David Barsamian, host of Alternative Radio

David Barsamian is the founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine. His latest interview books include Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky, Speaking of Empire & Resistance with Tariq Ali, the Checkbook and the Cruise Missile with Arundhati Roy, and many others.

For more information visit www.alternativeradio.org.

Local Events with David Barsamian:

Tuesday November 15
12:00pm Report back from the World Tribunal on Iraq and Another World is Possible: Public Power in the Age of Empire. Glendale Community College, Kreider Hall. 1500 North Verdugo Road, Glendale, CA 91208 …

The Great War for Civilization
GUESTS: Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent for the Independent, author of “The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East”

Last week’s bombs in Amman, Jordan, killed 57 people – they are a taste of the daily realities in neighboring Iraq. Police have arrested an Iraqi woman who failed to detonate her explosives. The woman was identified as the sister of Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s former right hand man in Iraq’s volatile Anbar province. This is just the latest in a daily barrage of news from the Middle East and Muslim world in general, that apparently drives George W. Bush’s so-called War on Terror. This morning we’re joined in studio by one of the best known reporters in the world, who has spent decades on the front lines of the Middle East. Robert Fisk is based in Beirut, Lebanon as …

On Friday November 18 at 7 pm, there will be a benefit for Afghan Women’s Mission with David Barsamian and Sonali Kolhatkar, at the Westminister Chapel of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, located at 3300 Wilshire Blvd. All proceeds will benefit the social and humanitarian projects of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). For more information, visit www.afghanwomensmission.org.

Sonali Kolhatkar will be speaking on November 16th, 2005 – Let’s Talk About Iraq: A Teach-in and Panel Discussion at Los Angeles Valley College. On Wednesday November 16 from 11:30am to 2pm at the Los Angeles Valley College, Monarch Hall. Sonali Kolhatkar will be speaking on November 16th, 2005 – Let’s Talk About Iraq: A Teach-in and Panel Discussion at Los Angeles Valley College. On Wednesday November 16 from 11:30am to 2pm at the Los Angeles Valley College, Monarch Hall Sonali Kolhatkar will be speaking on November 16th, 2005 – Let’s Talk About Iraq: A Teach-in and Panel Discussion at Los Angeles Valley College. On Wednesday November 16 from 11:30am to 2pm at the Los Angeles Valley College, Monarch Hall

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Stanley “Tookie” Williams faces execution
GUESTS: Barbara Becnel, Oakland based activist, co-author with Williams.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked on Tuesday November 8th to grant clemency to Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the co-founder of the notorious Los Angeles Crips gang who has been serving more than 2 decades on death row. Tookie, the author of award winning childrens’ books, has also been nominated numerous times for the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Literature Prize and was visited in prison by Winnie Mandela. Stanley “Tookie” Williams is scheduled to be executed this December 13th for four murders. In 1992, a judge recommended clemency rather than execution. Oscar winning actor Jamie Foxx played Tookie’s character in a cable TV film called “Redemption”. …